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The need for more collaboration at all levels of government was stressed throughout the Roundtable as an important strategy to assist homeless children and their families. Participants noted that the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is about to release a new Plan to End Homelessness, in which addressing family homelessness

Research has shown that homeless families are heterogeneous in terms of their needs, their pathways into homelessness and their experience of it. They are typically from a larger population of poor families, where housing is precarious. Homelessness in families is largely a temporary state, which is encouraging, but memories of experiences in shel

David Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, welcomed participants and set the stage for the Roundtable. His remarks focused on the importance of increasing our understanding of the issue, deepening partnerships, improving services to homeless families, and identifying new

On May 18, 2010, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation convened a Roundtable on Homeless Children. The purpose of the Roundtable was to understand the impact of homelessness on children, identify the resources currently available to address the needs of homeless children, and discuss opportunities for coordination. Whil

Studying the implementation of interventions can help us understand the challenges and opportunities that arise during the implementation process. Several research-verified constructs, including Fidelity of Implementation, Levels of Use, and Stages of Concern, can be used to measure the progress of systems, communities, organizations, and practiti

Several implications for supporting practice are related to identifying and monitoring implementation milestones: (a) the importance of engaging in planning activities early in implementation, (b) the importance of providing support for implementing an intervention, and (c) the importance of measuring infrastructure for implementation support.

Policy can be related to identifying and monitoring implementation milestones in several ways: (a) Include expectations about the likely time and supports necessary to meet implementation milestones in funding announcements and interim project deliverables; (b) align performance management and continuous quality improvement (CQI) with implementati

The amount of time it takes to progress across the Implementation Bridge can vary greatly. Data from MTFC suggest that the creating and implementing phase could take 2 to 3 years, and other work suggests that the creating phase could take between 6 months and a year (Blase & Fixsen, 2013). Implementing new programs, curricula, and reforms in s

Several evidence-based constructs have been introduced for thinking about and developing implementation milestones. Applying these milestones to an intervention involves (1) identifying core components (i.e., What will the practitioners be doing?); (2) projecting a timeline of the likely rate of movement across the LoUs; (3) anticipating the Stage

In this section, we explore the following questions:
What data should be collected to determine progress across the Implementation Bridge?
What would an implementation monitoring plan look like?
How much time does it take?

Another use of implementation milestones is as diagnostics for determining which supports will advance the implementation of interventions. The idea of “implementation drivers” proposed by Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, and Wallace (2005) represents one way to think about actions and processes to support implementation at different levels (or

Another important consideration is the broader context in which an intervention is being implemented. Different aspects of the context can support or inhibit successful implementation. One aspect of context is the “unit of change.” The primary implementer can be an individual (e.g., a case manager in a foster care agency), an organization (all

Charting feelings and perceptions represents a third way to establish implementation milestones. Change science scholars have identified and described the different concerns that people can have when engaged with a change process; these can be used to chart movement across the Implementation Bridge. Four major categories of concern have been ide

Another set of implementation milestones describes practitioners’ increasing competence in using an intervention. Studies conducted from the practitioners’ perspective suggest that developing the knowledge and skill to implement an intervention effectively requires time and experience (Bellg et al., 2004; Durlak & DuPre, 2008). As practiti

One set of implementation milestones involves Fidelity of Implementation. “Fidelity is the faithfulness with which an intervention is implemented; that is, how well the intervention is implemented without compromising its core content, pedagogical, and implementation components which are essential for the intervention’s effectiveness” (Natio

Several constructs can be used to monitor progress in implementing interventions:
Fidelity of Implementation —Today’s interventions are complex and have many parts, which can lead to varying aspects of the intervention being implemented at different times.
Competence in Use —The expertise and competence of practitioners carrying out an

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